Site AdministratorLadies and gentlemen, welcome to the Jeff Jackson era. For those of you unfamiliar with the first-year Irish head hockey coach and his team, these next few weeks will be a crash course. Jump on the bandwagon now before it’s too late — this Notre Dame hockey team is going places. Jackson brings a pedigree … Read more
North Dakota scored three times in the third period and goalie Jordan Parise recorded his fourth shutout of the season as the Fighting Sioux defeated Michigan Tech, 4-0, to take sole possession of fifth place in the WCHA. The Sioux came out sluggish in the first period and, for the first 10 minutes, were outshot … Read more
Colgate, Dartmouth and Harvard all answered the challenge last weekend, recording four points apiece and securing first-round byes for the ECACHL playoffs. Cornell’s stumble on Friday night in a 2-0 loss to Rensselaer enabled Colgate and Dartmouth to capture a share of the Cleary Cup as the co-champions of the ECACHL regular season. Raider assistant … Read more
Give some people an inch and they take a mile. Given a few square feet in front of the net, the Quinnipiac Bobcats took a one-game lead in their playoff series on Friday. Tenth-seeded Quinnipiac got a pair of goals in the game’s first 4:24 and never looked back. They rode the lead and hot … Read more
Mike Zbriger snapped a 2-2 tie just 25 seconds into overtime, lifting St. Lawrence University to a 3-2 win over Brown in the first game of a best-of-three ECAC Hockey League playoff series at Appleton Arena Friday night. Zbriger’s goal came following a icing call on Brown at the start of the extra period. The … Read more
The upcoming WCHA quarterfinals could be historic for two reasons — the debut of a playoff system that should stay for years to come, and some fresh blood in the WCHA semifinals. This is the first year that the WCHA will play best-of-three quarterfinal series on campus sites — just like the top men’s conferences … Read more
Both men’s and women’s ice hockey program are academically performing up to expectations, according to the Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA on Wednesday. The APR initiative was implemented by the NCAA as a means of tracking academic performance in athletics at member schools, and to penalize programs which fail to meet … Read more
The ECACHL women’s quarterfinals have come a long way in the four years since they first went to a best-of-three campus site format. The first-ever No. 8 vs. No. 1 quarterfinal featured an 11-18-2 Colgate team getting blown out by a 24-6-2 Dartmouth team by 11-1 and 6-0 margins, and No. 2 seed Brown did … Read more
NCAA Tournament Bids on the Line March Madness is upon us. No, not the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament, but the MIAC and NCHA championship games. If anyone from the MIAC wants to be playing in the NCAA Tournament, they will have to win the conference tournament. It doesn’t look as if any team has played … Read more
If a player struggled to live up to considerable hype, watched as the job he was competing for was claimed by someone else and went through off-ice troubles, you would say he’s had a heck of a rough career, right? But, if all these things happened in just one season — let alone that player’s … Read more
Union coach Nate Leaman had been hoping that two of his top freshmen, defenseman Lane Caffaro and forward T.J. Fox, would be reinstated to the team after they appealed their school-imposed season-ending suspensions. But that won’t be happening. Caffaro and Fox recently had their appeals denied by interim school president Dr. James Underwood. No other … Read more
The matchup is a rematch of last year’s semifinal, but a lot has changed since Providence hung a 9-1 result on Boston College en route to the Friars’ third straight Hockey East title. BC is now the team ranked in the national polls, the team that comfortably secured its playoff spot several weeks ago, and … Read more
No. 1 New Hampshire enters the postseason riding a program-best 26-game unbeaten streak that would be a winning streak if not for the efforts of Maine. The Black Bears managed a 5-5 tie on Jan. 13 and provided the Wildcats with their toughest weekend set since November. Maine has been playing quasi-postseason hockey for several … Read more
ANNIE GREENWOOD League champion Princeton was the big winner in the Ivy postseason awards, released Wednesday, as junior Kim Pearce won Player of the Year, Annie Greenwood won Rookie of the Year, and Pearce, senior goalie Roxanne Gaudiel and junior defenseman Laura Watt earned First Team honors. The quartet led Princeton to its first Ivy … Read more
Very little about Thursday night’s contest between No. 10 Denver and No. 5 Colorado College was pretty. Paul Stastny’s pair of goals, the first and last of the game, proved all the highlights that the visitors would need, however, as the Pioneers captured an ugly 5-4 victory over the Tigers. Stastny’s bookend goals gave the … Read more
Dartmouth senior forward Mike Ouellette, who helped the Big Green to its first-ever ECACHL regular-season championship, was named Ivy League Player of the Year Wednesday. Ouellette accumulated 31 points this season on 11 goals and 20 assists. A second-team All-Ivy selection last season, he finished the season third in the Ivy League in points per … Read more
Women’s ice hockey scored sixth-highest among all NCAA Division I women’s sports in the first set of Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores based on a two-year cohort. The NCAA’s new academic measurement, known as APR, is based on the academic eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes. An APR score of 925 is equivalent to an … Read more
The day-by-day achievements of this year’s 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award are too long for any one person to remember, so USCHO is providing the service of listing them right here. This list highlights games in which candidates made indisputable contribution to the outcome, with an emphasis on results against NCAA contenders. The … Read more
It’s hard to imagine where the 2005-06 Wisconsin women’s hockey team would be without Sara Bauer and Bobbi Jo Slusar.
When Ferris State junior forward Zac Pearson beat Michigan goalie Billy Sauer 42 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 win on Saturday night in Ann Arbor, Mich., he not only scored the game-winning goal — he also saved his team a 3,500 mile road trip. Pearson’s goal launched the Bulldogs into sole position of seventh … Read more